| Healthy diet snacks! Isn't that an oxymoron? Can | | | | Doctors, as well as nutritionists alike, is nuts. Not only |
| snacks ever be healthy? I thought the prime reason | | | | do they fill up the stomach and satisfy the hunger |
| that people put on weight and fail to achieve their | | | | pangs, but they also help increase the good |
| weight loss goals, is snacking. Most weight loss | | | | cholesterol in your body. Almonds and walnuts are |
| experts now say that snacking is an essential part of | | | | particularly recommended. However, do remember, |
| a healthy diet, as long as the snacks are not the high | | | | just a handful, about six almonds, or six walnut |
| salt, high sugar type. | | | | halves. |
| So, can snacks be part of a healthy diet? Or are | | | | Fruits, of course, qualify, but many of us do not think |
| there snacks that qualify as healthy food -- you | | | | of fruits as a snack. Fruits not only fill the stomach, |
| know, the low fat, low salt, high fiber type? The | | | | but are rich in various vitamins and minerals-- an |
| answer to that question is yes. | | | | immensely healthy snack. |
| Which Snacks Qualify? | | | | Why Are Healthy Diet Snacks Not Working For You? |
| Before you set off for the grocery store thinking | | | | You have been on a weight loss program for over |
| that all you need to do is pick up a few packs of | | | | six months and the scale needle does not appear to |
| healthy diet snacks, be warned. While what I am | | | | have moved at all. You have been honest with |
| about to list below do come in the categories of | | | | yourself. You only eat as per your diet chart, and |
| health food and snacks, most of these do not come | | | | you have snacked only on healthy diet snacks. Then |
| in a packet that you rip open and gobble up; a.k.a. | | | | why are you not seeing the desired results? |
| potato chips. | | | | This problem occurs with many people, and the |
| Let us investigate some foods that can be good | | | | answer lies in portion control. Have you been keeping |
| snacks. | | | | track of what and how much you are eating? You |
| The first is low fat yogurt. This one does come | | | | may think that you are eating low calorie foods, and, |
| ready in a pack, and you can just open one and eat | | | | hence, can munch on them through the day. This is |
| it when you are hungry. Low fat yogurt contributes | | | | not true. Keep track of how much and what you are |
| significantly to achieving weight loss targets, as well. | | | | eating. Keep a little notepad in your bag, and jot |
| The next, believe it or not, is popcorn. There is a | | | | down whatever you have eaten throughout the day. |
| disclaimer here though. The high salt, buttery popcorn | | | | At the end of the week, when you look through this |
| does not qualify. If you pop your own corn using a | | | | diary, you will be able to assess whether you ate |
| little unsaturated fat, this can be a healthy diet snack. | | | | right and your snacking was made up of healthy diet |
| The third type -- the one being recommended by | | | | snacks. |